Collect all the same  calibers into one lot and ebay or gun broker them .   or make up a price and put them on the forum.  should be a market for .32 rf, don't know about the others.  If he had too many, maybe $5 was too high.   

and that's worth $.02

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How do most collectors display/protect individual specimens? Perhaps a displayable packaging could help move them. I don't collect so all the odd things I have picked up over the years are in small boxes/bags/drawers.....

I have probably 30-40 original once fired casings the the 338-416 Rigby that was commercialized as the 338 Lapua. These came from military loadings used in the RAI sniper rifles used by some SOF units in the early 1980's. They lack a headstamp in were in plain white boxes. Upon firing the bolt was often impossible to open without a plastic mallet. I was told by inside sources that the problem was the cases were too soft, the bullets 0.001 oversize and the action (RAI 300) a bit springy. I used some of these to reload for a Rem 700 chambered for 338 using the load recommended by RAI and noticed the case was being extruded back into the ejector pin hole of the bolt face.... I heard the cases were made by Bell but I have not seen any proof of that.

Wards collectibles in Dallas Oregon has the patience to auction individual cartridges and seems to have a large following   

Thanks, Vall,

I hate sitting at gun show tables trying to sell stuff and trying to keep idiots from ruining the merchandise by doing stuff like opening sealed boxes to see what's inside.  But, that might be a good way to go.  Plus, I don't have the patience to listen to every old guy that comes over and tells me the story of his entire collection, thinking I'm interested because I have some of that kind of stuff for sale.

Only problem with putting it all out at a show is I'd have absolutely no good way to price what I have; it's going to take some research to figure it all out and determine what's worth what.  Otherwise, would be a shark feeding where all the vendors come over and buy my good stuff for 1/5 of what they put it out for, and leave me with the dogs that I overpriced.  At least when I sell one item at a time I don't put it up for sale until I research it, and I learn as I go by selling stuff in a selective order.

For now, all the cartridge stuff is sitting in about 30 ammo boxes in my shop; I made my way through all the miscellaneous gun parts last night, and started in on the huge lot of colt single action parts.  After I get those figured out, the harder winchester lever parts come next.  Only a few single shot parts in this lot, got a few 922 H&A, one favorite, a nice #2 rolling block, a rolling block sporter tang, a #6 remington, a couple period scopes, and the trapdoor and high wall barrels in the classifieds out of it.  Haven't gone through the barrels yet, did pull out a couple new liners and there's a few that might be good.

These all combined estate lots are an interesting challenge to sort through.  Every rusted and broken gun part from a 60 or 70 year period mixed together with rare and hard to get parts and rotted pieces of paper, even discarded candy bar and sandwich wrappers.  Barrel bands, cut off barrel ends, sights, safeties from military rifle conversions.  About 50 double barrel, pistol, pump shotgun and old lever gun receivers stripped all or partly, some burned or rusty.   All together in tubs.  Will have to take the steel scrap bucket to the recycling this week.

With a experienced  dealer you trust, having him sell at shows good option. Caution is how much it cost to sell and do you get paid.

Have had good and bad results both 

Boats

I will bet Steve Blancard would be interested in them.